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Land of Linkin'
Change of SubjectA weekly listing of intriguing, wacky, useful, provocative and otherwise interesting links that readers and I have come across and think you might want to see. Look for Land of Linkin' first thing every Monday morning and click here to...... -
'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...Tags: State of the Union Address, NPR, Elections, Bill Clinton, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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A lack of appetite for this conservative
WASHINGTON -- Whoever thinks there's no such thing as a free lunch has not been to the Heritage Foundation. After Sen. Mike Lee's speech to the conservative think tank Monday, his listeners didn't rush to the front of the room, where the Utah Republican...
Tags: Sociology, Republican Party, Philosophy, Human Interest, Tea Party Movement
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Who are the real 'takers'?
Contributing columnistAccording to the GOP, right-wing think tanks and Fox News, the U.S. is on the verge of becoming a nation of “takers” who want to be given (as Mitt Romney put it) “free stuff.” These takers are flush with a sense of “...Tags: Strikes, Business Enterprises, AFL-CIO, Career and Workplace, Mitt Romney
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It's A Gray Area: Government is meddling in health care
Since my last column about health care appeared in this space, the system has continued to gallop toward disaster. Today, under the federal government's "leadership," we often pay several times more in the United States for the same prescription drugs...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Prescription Drugs, Government Health Care, Health Insurance Cost, Plastic Surgeons
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Groupon co-founder Keywell taping radio pilots
Serial entrepreneur and Groupon co-founder Brad Keywell has begun taping pilots for a new 30-minute radio program he would host on WBEZ-FM 91.5, a public radio station. "It would be a Saturday morning show," said Jessica Malkin, executive director of...Tags: Business, Sales, Political Fundraising, Barack Obama, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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Author George Saunders headlines 10th annual CityLit Festival
Author George Saunders is having the kind of year that could lead the former roofer and slaughterhouse worker to imagine that someone is spritzing the air around him with a giant bottle of perfume. "The way things have been going recently, it's as if...
Tags: Enoch Pratt Free Library, GEICO, Authors, The New York Times, Syracuse
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Ken Levine returns with ‘BioShock Infinite,’ but will he stay?
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesSome video-game makers are motivated to make the most detailed simulation of warfare. Others re-create childhood dreams of monsters in ...... -
High-tech incubator Blueseed not the first to target high seas
PALO ALTO -- Forget building a startup. Max Marty and Dario Mutabdzija want to build a startup colony. And they want to put it in the Pacific Ocean –- out of the reach of restrictive U.S. immigration laws they say keep high-skilled immigrants...
Tags: Media Industry, Immigration, Career and Workplace, Bodies of Water, Oceans
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"Atlas Shrugged" evil alive and well
John Galt, the evil genius of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged," is "alive and well" roaming the halls of Congress. A figment of Rand's imagination, Galt continues to do serious damage through any number of assorted tea party/GOP extremists,...Tags: Mitch McConnell, Strikes, Career and Workplace, Philosophy, Mitt Romney
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On Demand/DVD New Releases: Feb. 18-24
Channel Guide MagazineAmong this week's new releases are a couple of literary classics (Anna Karenina and Atlas Shrugged), a real-life action adventure story about a fake movie crew (Argo) and a look at real movie director and his wife (Hitchcock). There's Fun Size, about a... -
Atlas isn't shrugging
Charlie Peters, a self-described "neoliberal" who edited The Washington Monthly, told me many years ago that the problem with liberals is they see themselves as heroes in a novel. Many conservatives today do the same thing, and they know just the novel:...
Tags: Richard Nixon, Career and Workplace, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Labor Legislation, Barack Obama
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Jan 28, 2013
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